Example sentences of "of [adv] 30 per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time the native peoples constituted a minority of only 30 per cent of the total population of Siberia , and they remained at that level until the end of the eighteenth century , although their own numbers increased from 288,000 in 1719 to 732,000 in 1795 . |
| 2 | Three of these studies suggest , for the institutional elderly population as a whole , a prevalence rate of approximately 30 per cent ( Ames et al . |
| 3 | Cabra , in which Bates has a stake of nearly 30 per cent , may settle for less than the £22.8 million if it takes into account other shareholders in its subsidiary company SB Properties , which owns the football ground . |
| 4 | This means that leaded bronze is relatively weak and may explain why the statuette in Figure 5.2 , which has a particularly high lead content of about 30 per cent , was broken at the neck . |
| 5 | It is also clear that additionality has varied considerably amongst zones : while Rotherham 's additionality amounts to 60 per cent , others , such as Dudley and Clydebank , reveal totals of about 30 per cent . |
| 6 | The winter populations in 12 major wildfowl localities in the county for the period 1964/65 to 1974/5 are summarised in the table on page 86 , and a comparison of these figures with similar figures for the same areas between 1947 and 1964 indicates an overall decline of about 30 per cent . |
| 7 | The next 30 years saw a drop of about 30 per cent , very unevenly distributed and with many fluctuations . |
| 8 | It seems a more unlikely plant than most to be a herb , but the whole of it , leaves , stems etc. , consist of about 30 per cent mucilage , and this has a great number of medicinal applications , known for many centuries . |
| 9 | During a five-day smog in the Ruhr area of West Germany in January 1985 the authorities believed they had achieved overall emission reductions of about 30 per cent , including 14 per cent of sulphur dioxide from power stations and 40–50 per cent of oxides of nitrogen from traffic ( Lubkert , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | Experts estimated that the change might allow the disposal under these regulations of about 30 per cent of US low-level waste , which would , however , contain under 1 per cent of total radioactivity . |
| 11 | On March 6 the Central Bank of Nigeria , having the previous day decided to float the naira , set a new starting exchange rate of 17.8 naira to the US dollar , compared with 10.6 naira earlier in the week ; bank officials said that a devaluation of about 30 per cent was expected . |
| 12 | Conservative financial management in the UK usually recommends a level of about 30 per cent . |
| 13 | Conservative financial management in the UK usually recommends a level of about 30 per cent . |
| 14 | To achieve savings of around 30 per cent , the French will relax certain safety constraints observed in Super-Phenix , the 1200 megawatt breeder due to come into operation next year . |
| 15 | The sale was to be financed by the flotation of around 30 per cent of the Commonwealth Bank , a proposal that was bitterly attacked by left-wing members of the ALP within the federal parliament . |
| 16 | In the Lake District too , Clark ( 1982a , 1982b ) cites an estimate of 11 per cent of stock being in use as second homes in the mid-1970s , with figures of over 30 per cent in some parishes . |
| 17 | Indeed , this has already been observed in Scandinavia and North America : for example , Cogbill and Likens ( 1974 ) suggest that the proportion contributed by nitrates has increased from 22 per cent in the mid 1950s to its present value of over 30 per cent . |
| 18 | The total in 1991 had been 256,112 asylum applicants , chiefly from Yugoslavia , Romania and Turkey ( an increase of over 30 per cent on the 1990 figure of 193,063 ) , and 221,995 ethnic Germans . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Draught Guinness has again outperformed the market , and Kaliber is the clear leader in the no and low alcohol sector with a market share of over 30 per cent . |